utilitas

Latin

Etymology

ūtilis +‎ -tās

Noun

ūtilitās f (genitive ūtilitātis); third declension

1. usefulness, utility
2. expediency
3. advantage

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ūtilitās	ūtilitātēs
Genitive	ūtilitātis	ūtilitātum
Dative	ūtilitātī	ūtilitātibus
Accusative	ūtilitātem	ūtilitātēs
Ablative	ūtilitāte	ūtilitātibus
Vocative	ūtilitās	ūtilitātēs

Descendants

• Catalan: utilitat
• English: utility
• French: utilité
• Galician: utilidade
• Italian: utilità
• Occitan: utilitat
• Portuguese: utilidade
• Romanian: utilitate
• Spanish: utilidad

References

• “utilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “utilitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• utilitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • untold advantages arise from a thing: utilitas efflorescit ex aliqua re
    
  • to be serviceable: utilitatem afferre, praebere
    
  • to considerably (in no way) further the common good: multum (nihil) ad communem utilitatem afferre
    
  • to consider one's own advantage in everything: omnia ad suam utilitatem referre
    
• utilitas in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016